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The impact of an innovative human resource function on firm performance: the moderating role of financing strategy

Knight-Turvey, Neal; Neal, Andrew; West, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategy on the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from a resource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theory perspective on capital structure....

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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What do we know about China's CEO's?: evidence from across the whole economy

Bryson, Alex; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

All that we know about the CEO labour market in China comes from studies of public listed companies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper is the first to examine the operation of the CEO labour market across all sectors of the Chinese economy. We do so using World Bank enterprise data...

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Are family-friendly workplace practices a valuable firm resource?

Bloom, Nick; Kretschmer, Tobias; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We study the determinants and consequences of family-friendly workplace practices (FFWP) using a sample of over 450 manufacturing firms in Germany, France, U.K., and U.S. We find a positive correlation between firm productivity and FFWP. This association disappears, however, once we control for...

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Innovation Strategies and Firm Performance

Karlsson, Charlie; Tavassoli, Sam - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

This paper analyzes the effect of various innovation strategies of firms on their future performance, captured by … labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour … of firms over a decade, i.e. from 2002 to 2012. We distinguish between sixteen innovation strategies, which compose of …

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